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Which is bigger: “a great number of” or “a huge number of”?
a huge number of
Put these adjectives into order smallest to largest: huge, large/great, endless, fair, excessive, limited
limited, fair, large/great, huge, endless, exessive
What type of nouns is “a great deal of” used with: countable, uncountable or both?
Uncountable
Which is bigger: “a great range of” or “a wide range of”?
a great range of
What does the phrase “no small amount of” mean: a lot or a little?
A lot
What type of noun is used with “a limited number of”: countable, uncountable, or both?
Countable
What type of noun is used with “a great deal of”: countable, uncountable, or both?
Uncountable
What type of noun is used with “an endless range of”: countable, uncountable, or both?
Both
Which is used with uncountable nouns: “there is lots of” or “there are lots of”?
There is lots of
Which is the only word that can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns: host, bunch, supply or handful?
Supply
Which phrase is the most informal: “a lot of” “a handful of” or “lots of”
Lots of
How can you say “a large amount of” using the word “no”?
No small amount of
When the phrase “a huge sum of” is used, what is the most common word that follows?
Money
In British English does “quite a lot of” mean “not that much” or “a great deal of”?
not that much
When “fair” is used as a quantity adjective, does “a fair number of” mean “a balanced number of” or “a large number of”?
A large number of
What type of noun is used with “an excessive amount of”: countable, uncountable or both?
Uncountable
